State surveillance of personal data is theft, say world’s leading authors
theguardian.com ? Matthew Taylor ? 12/9/13 5:00 PM ? More than 500 of the world’s leading authors, including five Nobel prize winners, have condemned the scale of state surveillance revealed by the whistleblower Edward Snowden and warned that spy agencies are undermining democracy and must be curbed
?People won?t use technology they don?t trust,” Brad Smith, general counsel and executive VP of legal at Microsoft, said in an ominous statement this week. “Governments have put this trust at risk, and governments need to help restore it.?
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What Facebook, Seven Other Tech Giants Wrote To The U.S. Government On Surveillance Reform
Facebook teamed up with AOL, Apple, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter, andYahoo on An Open Letter to Washington regarding global government surveillance reform, urging governments around the world to take action.Man Who Joined Anonymous Attack for ‘1 Minute’ Fined $183,000
A 38-year-old man was sentenced to two years probation and a hefty fine for participating in a distributed denial-of-service attack organized by hacker collective Anonymous against the webpage of Koch Industries in 2011.
Introducing the Blogosphere of Russia?s North Caucasus
This is the introduction to an extensive RuNet Echo study of the North Caucasus blogosphere. Explore the complete report and personal stories on The Caucasus Networkpage.
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